Fresh lemon juice will remove onion scent from hands.
Pour all leftover vegetables and water in which the are cooked into a freezer container. When full, add tomato juice and season to create a soup.
Instant potato flakes or baby cereal are a good soup thickener.
Three large stalks of celery, chopped and added to about two cups of beans (nave, brown, pinto, etc.), will make them easier to digest.
When cooking vegetables that grow above ground, boil uncovered.
A lump of sugar added to water when cooking greens helps vegetables retain their fresh color.
Never soak vegetables after slicing; they will lose much of their nutritional value.
Fresh vegetables require little seasoning or cooking. If the vegetables is old, dress it up with sauce or seasoning.
To cut down on odors when cooking cabbage, cauliflower, etc..., add a little vinegar to the cooking water.
To avoid tears when cutting onions, remove all skin and try cutting them under cold running water or briefly place them in the freezer before cutting.
Perk up soggy lettuce by soaking in a mixture of lemon juice and cold water.
Vinegar can remove spots caused by tomatoes. Soak the spot with vinegar and wash as usual.
Egg shells can be easily removed from hard-boiled eggs if they are quickly rinsed in cold water after they are boiled. Also, add a drop of food coloring to help tell the cooked eggs apart from the raw ones in your refrigerator.
Keep beans sprouts ind jicama fresh and crisp up to five days by submerging them in a container of water before refrigerating.
Your fruit salads will look perfect when you use and egg slicer to make perfect slices of strawberries, kiwis, or bananas.
This year for Thanksgiving, my family came to visit! We had so much fun with Grandma and Grandpa, the Guins, and the Curls!
Here's Mercedes with her Thanksgiving Feast! The food was AWESOME!!!
Grandma was Radiant! She sure knows how to throw a swingin' party!
This is Grandpa, resting his eyes after such a wonderful meal!
Don't take my picture!
This was so funny! A few weeks ago, one of the chickens jumped up on Mercedes twice! The flapping wings and pecking freaked her out, and ever since then she's been a little leary of them. Well she's over here in the yard playing, and a rooster starts pecking towards her so she jumps up on the lawn mower to get a way. Except there's one small problem. Christina, who is almost the same size starts waving her arms trying to push Mercedes off and keeps yelling "Go way! Go way!" Finely, Christina got up and left.
Here's Kinsley! My girls have so much fun playing with her!
